THE
Jewish Encyclopedia A DESCRIPTIVE RECORD OF
THE HISTORY, RELIGION, LITERATURE, AND CUSTOMS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY Prepared by More than Four Hundred Scholars and Specialists UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL BOARD Cyrus Adler, Ph.D.
(Departments
of Post-
Biblical Antiquities ; the Jews of America)
Gotthard Deutsch, Ph.D. History from 1492
Louis
to
(Department of
igo2)
Morris Jastrow,
Kauhmann Kohler,
Ginzberg, Ph.D. (Department of Rab-
Talmudic Literature)
(Departments
of
Frederick de Sola Mf.ndes, Ph.D. (Chief of the
Richard Gottheil, Ph.D. (Departments of History from Ezra to 1492 ; History of Post-
Ph.D.
and Philosophy)
Theology
binical Literature)
Ph.D. (Department of the
Jr.,
Bible)
Bureau of Translation ; Revising Editor)
Herman Rosenthal
(Department of the Jews of
Russia and Poland).
Joseph Jacobs, B.A. (Departments of the Jews of England and A nthropology; Revising Editor).
Isidore Singer, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Biography from J?JO to iqo2).
Marcus Jastrow, Ph.D. (Department
Crawford
of the
Talmud)
II.
Toy, D.D., LL.D. (Departments
of Hebrew Philology
K. FUNK, D.D., IX.D. Chairman of the Board
ISAAC
ISIDORE SINGER,
FRANK
and
H.
Hellenistic Literature).
VIZETELLY
Secretary of the
Board
Ph.D.
Projector and Managing Editor
ASSISTED BY AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BOARDS OF CONSULTING EDITORS
VOLUME II APOCRYPHA— BENASH
